Commercial Floriculture

The art of training

Standard :
• For better shape of the plants and attractive extra large flower, large flowered chrysanthemums are trained as standard to produce 1-3 blooms per plant.
Sen Rin Tsukuri :
• In this style, the plant is designed to a geometrical shape (6-10 concentric circles in steeped manner) and it is trained in such a way that about 200-300 blooms are formed per plant having an approximate height of 153-183 cm and a diameter of 183-244 cm.
Bush Form :
• Small flowered chrysanthemum blooms are arranged compactly to give an effect of a floral carpet. The most important is the use of soft pinching to outer or lower branches and hard pinching to central or higher branches.
Cascade Form :
• the plants trained in Cascade form give the effect of a water fall in blooming stage. The stem is made to bend down above the rim of the container.
Coniform :
• The shape of the plant is made conical by special training. For giving a perfect coniform shape staking and pinching are most important.
Fan Form :
• A type of training form of small flowered chrysanthemum. In final form it looks like a hand fan.

WEED CONTROL:
• Weeding and hoeing are generally done manually as and when required, normally 8-10 times yearly.
• Crop suffers heavily if timely weeding is not given.
• Besides, control of weeds the soil is made loose porous to provide aeration.

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